Giorgos

Greek film editor Giorgos Mavropsaridis, known from his cooperation with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, became a member of the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, joining 842 new members from 59 countries.
Mavropsaridis was nominated last year for an Oscar for the 2018 period comedy The Favourite and won an Eddie award for the Best edited feature film for the same movie.

PAOK is looking for a new manager after the unexpected departure of Razvan Lucescu on Friday, with Abel Ferreira being the likely successor according to reports.

The true story of Giannoula Koulourou has been adapted for the stage in an original play written by Theodora Kapralou and directed by Giorgos Papageorgiou. Born in Patra in 1868, the street vendor with a slight mental disability became a laughing stock in her home town for expressing her desire to get married.

US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt has hailed the strong participation of Greek companies to the sixth SelectUSA Investment Summit, the country's largest investment conference, which was held in Washington DC from June 10 to 12.

Giorgos and Maria, after the dragon-slaying saint and the mother of Christ, are the most popular names in Greece, representing 8.8 and 8.3 percent, respectively, of the country's male and female populations, data released on Tuesday by ELSTAT showed.

The Athens municipal council has appointed Giorgos Broulias as the caretaker mayor of the Greek capital after the resignation last week by Giorgos Kaminis so he can run in the European Parliament elections later in the month on the ticket of Movement for Change (KINAL).

Is a strong friendship between two former soccer players enough to make one of them heed the other's call and travel to work together on the other side of the world?

The Elly cinema will be screening Steve Krikris's critically acclaimed new film, "The Waiter," with English subtitles on Wednesday, April 10, at 5.50, 8 and 10.10 p.m.

A verse from Giorgos Seferis's poem "Thrush" - "...the statues are no longer fragments. We are" - perfectly captures the essence of "Broken History," a new collection of works by artist Pavlos Samios that recently went on show at the Greek capital's Byzantine and Christian Museum.

The United States was a "true mediator" between Athens and its international creditors at the peak of the Greek crisis and helped prevent the country's ouster from the eurozone on several occasions, Kathimerini's Washington correspondent, Katerina Sokou, said during a panel discussion on the subject of "The US Role in the Greek Debt Crisis."